A throbbing, scraping masterpiece of caterwaul, glorious guitar noise and improvisation, this album's seething dub throb and cathartic uplift make it one of rock's most...
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PiL managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and Metal Box is undoubtedly the apex. It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk,...
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Sounding like the Sex Pistols remodeled, the hard-pop Album produced the shamelessly catchy single "Rise" and a memorable catch phrase, "anger is an energy." Like its plain...
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Hot guitars and 4/4 time signatures make this sound more like a hard-rock album than anything Lydon's done since The Sex Pistols. And the hit single "Rise" is actually a...
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The Greatest Hits, So Far mines the singles PiL released through 1990. Ten years after its release, it was doubtful that a second volume would surface (the '90s saw one lone...
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9 features essentially the same group of characters found on Happy?, with only Lu Edmonds having left the fold (though he did contribute to the writing on each song). Seven...
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Happy? benefits from some relative stability in PiL's lineup, not to mention the undeniable fact that the band members' allegiance makes sense (in contrast to that of...
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Live In Tokyo 1/1/1983, Yahoo! Music, Tristram Lozaw
Apparently, no one in Tokyo noticed that John Lydon passed off a pick-up band as PiL to record this concert...
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Live in Tokyo doesn't capture PiL at its best moment. Lydon is supported by a set of anonymous backing musicians, as he tries to squeeze some added milage out of the hit...
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Former Sex Pistol vocalist John Lydon once again unleashed his Public Image Ltd. project, this time with a more basic, unrelenting rock & roll attack than ever before. The...
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With its shorter songs and quicker tempos, this album's shift toward the mainstream (strings, horns, heavy production) yielded PiL's biggest hit single, "This Is Not A Love...
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Most who own Plastic Box probably use the second half as coasters. Those who don't probably get headaches when listening to the first two, and a select few find much to love...
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Lydon adds keyboards, horns, and even a violin, double-tracks his vocals, and writes shorter songs with faster tempos. This Is What You Want ... This Is What You Get doesn't...
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As opposed to the axis of throbbing bass and guitar slashings of Metal Box, The Flowers of Romance is centralized on razor-sharp drums and typically haranguing vocals. No...
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This pairing of PiL's first two albums -- 1978's Public Image and the following year's Metal Box (known as Second Edition in the U.S.) -- was part of EMI's "Double Original"...
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PiL managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and Metal Box is undoubtedly the apex. It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk,...
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